Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, there are those who feel that the after-effects of Winter Carnival will show in the play of the hosts, but the well-informed disregard this feeling, since the Dartmouth team was on the road and missed the festivities in Hanover. Nonetheless, the post-Carnival letdown, if coupled with inspired Crimson shooting could bring about the down-fall of the undefeated...
Immediately there was speculation as to whether Dulles would return to his post as top ranking cabinet officer and foreign policy administrator...
...been invited to any of the performances, but he had read about the programs and that was enough. So far as Drama Critic Richard Coe of the Washington Post and Times Herald is concerned, during the 1958-59 season the White House was one of the nation's worst show spots. Running down the bills, Critic Coe could tick off the Supreme Court dinner in December, when the President's guests heard a collection of local amateur harpists; the diplomatic corps dinners, which featured the boys' choir of Washington's Landon School; and the season...
Part of Classroom's success lies in the country's post-Sputnik appetite for science. But the show could have been a nucleonic turkey without its M.C.: Dr. Harvey E. White, 57, a top University of California physicist, who got the $38,000 yearly job (v. $12,000 at U.C.) after previously enlivening a TV high school physics course in Pittsburgh. A lanky, friendly, precise talker, Dr. White is no jazzy showman ; he drones at times like a farm agent exhaling a market report. Yet he somehow makes physics a sort of cosmic cooking course that can fascinate...
Evading the technological mumbo jumbo of most spacemen of letters, Author Bradbury concentrates instead on the post-atomic-war homesickness of displaced Earthlings, or the pioneering wonder of planet hopping. An unexpected religiosity mars several of these tales and suggests that science fiction may be catering to a new brand of heresy ("If there's any way to get hold of that immortality men are always talking about, this is the way-spread out-seed the universe...